Improvement in billiard-tables



UNITED STATES WESLEY H. STROUP, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BlLLlARD-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,985, dated July 16,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WESLEY H. STROUP, of Pittsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement inBilliard-Tables; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing which forms-a portion of this specification.

In the accompanying drawing, a indicates the cloth-covered face of abilliard-table; b, the cushion-rail of said table; 0, the cushion of thesame; and d, a sheet-metal covering for the exposed upper and outersurface of said rail. The upper surfaces of cushions and cushion-railsof billiardtables are necessarily on a line with each other; the formeris covered with cloth, and the latter has heretofore usually had aveneered surface of wood, and consequently the angular inner edge ofsaid veneering is brought into direct contact with the cloth covering ofthe cushion c.

The cues of the players being brought into frictional and occasionallyinto sharp concussive contact with the upper surfaces of thecushion-rails, those surfaces, when the tables are much used, soonbecome scratched and defaced, and after a time the veneering will giveway and become detached from the rails, and when that occurs the cueswill necessarily be brought into direct frictional contact with thecloth covering of the cushions, which action will speedily destroy saidcovering, detach the same from the cushions, and thereby render thetables unfit for use. To prevent such injury to the billiard-tables thatare supplied with wooden cushion-rails of the usual con struction is theobject of this invention; and this I accomplish by combining asheet-metal casing, d, with the upper surface and portions of the sidesof the cushion-rail b of a billiardtable, of such a thickness, andbearing such a relation to the upper surface of the cushion c of saidtable, as to form a combination of said cushion, cushion-rail, andsheet-metal casing, of such a character as will afford the desiredprotection to the exposed upper surfaces of said cushion andcushion-rail and cause the frictional action upon themetallic surface ofthe latter to keep it at all times brightly polished. The metalliccasing 61 is smoothly and firmly combined with the exposed upper and,outer surfaces of the cushion-rail b by bending the edges of said platearound the sides of the cushion-rail, or into recesses in the sides ofthe same, substantially as shown; and thereby the said metallic casin gis caused to present a smooth surface to the cloth-covering of thecushion c, and also a smooth and a durable surface to the exposed upperand outer sides of the cushion-rail.

I claim as my invention The combination with each other of the cushionc, the wooden cushion-rail b, and the sheetmetal casing d, substantiallyas and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony that the aforegoin g is a full and ,clear specification ofmy improvement in billiard-tables, I hereunto subscribe my name this21st day of March, 1872.

. W. H. STBOUP. Witnesses:

A. S. NICHOLSON. W. A. PAXTON.

